Source: Life Insurance Association Of America, Data For 1952-1963: Mimeographed Summary Table On "New Commitments Of Reporting Life Insurance Companies"; Data For 1964-1965: Monthly Tabulation Of "Forward Investment Commitments Of Life Insurance Companies" This NBER data series m10169 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 10 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter10.html. NBER Indicator: m10169

Average Contract Rate on Commitments for Fixed-Rate First Mortgages. - Please refer to the series WRMORTG for current data. Copyright, 2016, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. Reprinted with permission.

The Federal Reserve Board has discontinued this series as of October 11, 2016. More information, including possible alternative series, can be found at http://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/h15.html. Contract interest rates on commitments for fixed-rate first mortgages. Source: Primary Mortgage Market Survey data provided by Freddie Mac. Copyright, 2016, Freddie Mac. Reprinted with permission.

The Federal Reserve Board has discontinued this series as of October 11, 2016. More information, including possible alternative series, can be found at http://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/h15.html. Contract interest rates on commitments for fixed-rate first mortgages. Source: Primary Mortgage Market Survey data provided by Freddie Mac. Please refer to the series WMORTG for historical data. Copyright, 2016, Freddie Mac. Reprinted with permission.

Averages of daily figures. The Federal Reserve Board has discontinued this series. For more information, please refer to the Technical Q&As (https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/h15_technical_qa.htm) for the H.15 Statistical Release.